Smartie Mine

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'''''Smartie Mine''''' (1999) is Iowa native singer/songwriter Dan Bern's follow-up to ''Fifty Eggs''.

==Track listing== <small>Unless otherwise noted, all tracks by Dan Bern</small>

#"Smartie Mine" – 4:20 #"One Thing Real" – 5:41 #"Tiger Woods" – 3:07 #"Chelsea Hotel" – 4:54 #"City of Models" – 3:19 #"Krautmeyer" – 3:55 #"Crosses" – 5:18 #"Colors" – 3:25 #"Airplane Blues" (Sleepy John Estes, Lightnin' Hopkins) – 8:39 #"Freight Train Blues" (McDowell) – 4:52 #"Talkin' Woody, Bob, Bruce & Dan Blues" – 5:09 #"Ballerina" – 6:40 #"Simple" – 8:52 #"Beautiful Trees" – 2:41 #"Joe Van Gogh" – 4:15 #"Little Russian Girl" – 3:39 #"Gamblin' With My Love" (Pete Rose) – 5:36 #"Murderer" – 4:51 #"Alia" – 3:50 #"Two-Month Affair" – 3:26 #"Baby Love" (Wainwright) – 4:40 #"Sculpter" – 4:56 #"Dark Chocolate" – 3:42 #"Decadent Town" – 4:28 #"Hooker" – 7:32 #"Cocaine Blues/Blue Jay Way" (Davis, George Harrison) – 6:29 #"True Revolutionaries" – 8:27

== Personnel ==

*Dan Bern – Organ, Guitar, Harmonica, Cello, Vocals, Art Direction, Illustrations, Paintings *Jarrod Kaplan – Drums, Djembe *Tige DeCoster – Bass, Fretless Bass *Wil Masisak – Keyboards, Vocals, Found Objects *Martha Wainwright – Vocals (Lead Vocal on "Baby Love") *Eben Grace – Electric Guitar (track 16) & Lap Steel (track 13)

== References == {{Reflist}}

Category:1999 albums Category:Dan Bern albums